Nick Rowlands
Software Engineering Manager at Polaris Software
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Rowlands is a Software Engineering Manager based in London with 13 years of experience leading teams across banking, media, government and charity sectors. He combines hands‑on product and front-end engineering roots with proven people management—scaling teams, improving diversity, and embedding test automation and security into delivery pipelines. Nick has a track record of turning neglected services into maintainable live products, setting up “you build it, you run it” teams, and running discovery squads to rapidly validate user needs. Comfortable in consultancies or in-house roles, he also helps consultancies win government work and once improved gender balance on an engineering team from 5% to 30%. Known for pragmatic coaching and establishing high‑trust third‑party partnerships, he blends technical craft with organisational change to deliver measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Internet and Distributed Systems, MSc Internet and Distributed Systems at Durham UniversityBSc Computing Science, BSc Computing Science at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (54)
cloud-platform10
icon-pack9
logos9
svg-files9
svg-images9
go9
svg9
backend8
esi8
branding8
sky8
moj-cloud-platform7
hint7
coercion7
creative-commons6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rowlando/microblog
Mar 2020 - Jan 2024
My little Eleventy powered Micro Blog
Contributions:42 PRs, 58 pushes, 40 branches in 3 years 10 months
static-site-generatoreleventy
rowlando/tictactoe
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Tictactoe implemented with React and Typescript
Contributions:18 PRs, 22 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 3 months
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